New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-05
PERSONAL.

University will be preached to-day by the Rev. Joseph
Twtchell, of Hartford, Conn. Dr. Lyman A'Do''
viii deliver the Bacclaureate sermon
Mr. warner p. sutton, consul-General Of tho United
States at Matamoras, has prepared transla1ioh VI
tho new tariff law of Mexico for publication ny the
state Department. at Was hlngtOn.
Mr. John wanamaker of Philadelphia, will be ffty
years old on July IL. The newspaper proprie'or'
with whom no has been liberal advertiser WIN on
that date give MIN complimentary dinher as LILO
Union League Club
Tho Rev. rr Thomas Armitage of this city, VIII
this evening preach to the graduating class oil Grocer
Theological Seminary
Mayor Filter, Of Philadelphia, has fine country
seat at Torrcsdale and Will go there for the summer
this week.
Mr.. Mark Gay Pearse, of London is now with
Mr.. Moody at Mortified, Mass. Canon Wilberiorce
VIII presently go thither also.
Another OF the "sx hundred" is gone Sergeant
George Wilde, who died fortnight ago at Norwich,
England, had three horses killed under him III INC
famous charge at BaahlaVa
statue OF Mlrabeau, by Granet is to DO dedlcateo
on Juno % at Blgnon- Mrabcau' Loiret, France
At Queen vlctorla's recent State Ball Prince Henry
of Gutenberg at appeared wearing black gloves
These were seen to leave marks the white dress
OF tho Princess Victoria. Then the Prince OF wales
approached him and whispered in German, E nsns
etiquette prcscrlbcs whito gloves Frihce , menas
soon sDped out of the and when he retuIHe"
his hands were clothed LII whIls'
The lato Dr. Vuplan OF Paris thought and bluntly
said that for physical reasons women are not 10 DO
depended upon as physicians and their auopuoh "
that profession Is absurd.
Count Beust left a written statement Of the manner
I'm which his estate TO be disposed OF, put no
formal VIII for he said In the statement referred TO-
"to mako will Is a repulsve thing" He directed
that the simple stOno above his grave should pear
only his name, dates OF his birth and DEATH ao
tho words To his ashes, justice 10 his memory
DR.. Tanner, the belligerent Home Ruler created o
sensation in the House Of Commons recently by re-
ouesting Mr.. W. II Smith to ask The Poet Laureate
to write odo Oh the Coercion Dill
Mr. Walter Besaut has not beeu allowed TO wear
unchallcnycd his adrcls A. OTAf ator OF the IDEA %
tho Peoples Palace In London. motley throng Of
moro or less obscure writors has cropped
up, each proclalmlng that he, In some
hitherto unheardof book or paper, had sug-
cested tho scheme long before Mr. Besants Palace OF
1r,ht was planned. But public opinion ana onclal
recognition are on Mr.. Bcsants side; and they are
rirnP Maybe the other claimants did produce the
germs OF tho project before him. But In their writ
ens the germs were as nfertile wheat grains
In q mummy-case. Mr. BeSant plantcd ms IN soou
SOL and they have borne fruit an hundredfold
NJ Gerard do MeIcy. once tho husband of Gmha
Grsi, who on her account fought duel with Lord
Castereagh has lately been convicted Of forgery ana
sent " jail Tor year.
Walt Whitman has been in vted by some friends TO
spend the summer with them I'm England, ana by
others to go with them TO Canada His feeble
either offer.
Miss Emma lazarus Is In Paris, III.
Mr. Sidney Howard Cay has been In poor health
for some months past. his home on Staten Island.
and Is still too weak TO engage In any literary wOih
~ once went" says "Whltehall Review" cor
respondentrt TO a fancy dress ball held at private
house In London. and wore Kit, but only what l
may term a kind OF undress Highland costume !
haDuencd to arrive very early at the house, and was
indeed the first arrival. So, dyesting myself OF my
overcoar / sat comfortably down by the fire In the
rentlemcn's cloall-rJom In a short tine an elderly
man entered rolled up. he appeared 70 mo- In a
huge inverness cape, and with manifold muniers ued
round his neck. When he me he stood stu.
stared at me- and then began " dvest himself OF his
wrlus AT lat he stood beforo NE In iull IghIah1
dre.s the tartan being OF red colorng. ne hac
tlad sword. snulf-mull, AMI all the war paint o. d
vrritable Rob Roy. He kept lo0llng az me, with
eydeutly one or other OF these ideas In his mind
Sras suirrlsed 10 sec another Scot In the national
gaTb NJ bis country or else he looked upon NE with
mingled pity and contempt at my daring 10 appear
without the fun ara phtrnalia. Later On IN tue even
Ing discovered that this guest was James Orah" INC
novelist"
CIxclySATI June Nv II. Bremen, superintcnd-
emf Of the first Edison Electric Illuminating Company,
IN this city will leave early next week for New-fofk
preparatory departing for Japan, where he goes To
supcincnd the construction Of an electric light plant
for the purpose OF lighting the palace of the emperor
M Toxic Eight thousand lights are 10 be PROVIDED
Mr. Brsnncr will take no assistants, but VIII rely
upon native talent for his help